Quotes by Bacon, Francis

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if h >>

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of >>

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notio >>

Quotations about Past

You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happ >>

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what >>

The function of posterity is to look after itself. >>

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Bacon, Francis